To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

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28/VII.1921.

ComradeZinoviev:

Inview of a number of statements made by Zetkin,
I regard the conversation I had with her yesterday, before
her departure, to be so important that I must inform you
of it.

Shewants to set Levi two conditions:

1)resignhis parliamentary seat;

2)closedown his organ
(Sowiet[2]orUnser Weg, as
I believe it is now called), issuing a statement of loyaltyin respect of the decisions of the Third Congress of the
Communist International.

Furthermore,she is afraid that it could occur to some
friend of Levi’s to publish Rosa Luxemburg’s manuscript
against the Bolsheviks (which I think she wrote in prison
in 1918). If anyone should do this, she intends to make a
statement in the press that she is quite sure such an act
is disloyal. She would say that she had known Rosa
Luxemburg best of all, and is sure that she herself admitted
these views to be erroneous, that she admitted, upon her
release from prison, that she had been insufficiently
informed.

Inaddition, Léon Jogiches, Rosa Luxemburg’s closest
friend, in a detailed talk with Zetkin, two days before
he died, told her about this manuscript of Rosa
Luxemburg’s, and about Rosa Luxemburg herself admitting that
it was
wrong.[3]Zetkin was going to write you about this
at my request.

Ifshe has done so, please send me her letter.

Anotherinteresting point, according to her, is that there
is a wave of unification ofallworkers (both S.D.P. and
U.S.P.-Leute) in the struggle against
Lohnabbau,[1]etc.
Of course, Zetkin wasquite rightin saying that the
Communists shouldbackthis unificationin the struggle against
the capitalists. If the “Lefts” should object, they should
he made to see reason.

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

P.S.Lozovskyhas already publishedthe Congress
resolutions of the Red International of Trade Unions. Well
done!

Whatabout you?? Appointa person to be responsiblefor
editing, and getLozovskyto publish the resolutions of
the Third Congress of the Communist International.

[1]Wage-cuts.—Ed.

[2]Sowiet—a monthly published in Berlin from 1919 to July 1, 1921,
under the editorship of Paul Levi. Following Levi’s expulsion
from the United Communist Party of Germany, the journal, from
July 1, changed its orientation and was published under the name
ofUnser Weg. At the end of 1922 it ceased publication.

[3]Thedraft theses provided that the whole of Soviet policy in
Bukhara and Khiva should be implemented only through the
plenipotentiary representatives of Russia; the measures taken by the
Turkestan Commission were to be agreed with these
representatives and, on especially important matters, with the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.

OnAugust 5, 1921, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee endorsed the draft theses.